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A Demolished Man.
Github is now a fully owned, proprietary tool of Microsoft.
It's time to decide.
Do we as a community allow our future to depend upon commercial interests of a company that to this day spreads FUD and minimizes our impact when it suits their plans?
Or do we step up, do what we do best and take our code to somewhere created by the us for us and the good of the community?
This isn't about hating Microsoft. It's about loving our own sovereignty and controlling our *own* future.
Please Boost.
Find like minded ppl, nominate a community manager, find some devs, and fork it. Then you control the project in the way you want to, Gargron can guide his project his way, and the fediverse goes on. We can continue to connect with each other and everybody is doing so on their own terms
Look y'all here because I built Mastodon the way I wanted and you happened to like it. If you no longer like it that's your own business, don't give me shit about your failed expectations. There's the door, there's the code, there's the alternatives. The shit I've received today just because I was open to something that a part of the community wanted is completely inacceptable.
FLOSS community:
> hey let's put all our eggs in this one GitHub basket
> what could possibly go wrong
> GitHub is so convenient
Microsoft:
"City of Anarchy": A high resolution schematic of Kowloon Walled City by Adolfo Arranz for SCMP
It uses information and #photography from "The Darkness City: Life in Kownloon Walled City" by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot as well as the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong
This location was the origin of many #Cyberpunk tropes
Higher resolution version is available here: https://i.imgur.com/5EgtSjj.jpg
Conference survival for introverts:
- Try to keep a regular schedule. Don’t normally stay up ‘til 3AM? Don’t start now.
- Take advantage of quiet spaces to recharge.
- More hydration, less caffeine. Twitchy and dehydrated is a bad combo.
- You don’t have to see every single talk. Wanna sit in the hallway and people watch for an hour? Do it.
- A lot of other people there feel exactly the same way. It’s OK. 🙂
It’s a marathon, not a race. Pace yourself and keep your energy up.
I just interviewed William Gibson in Vancouver. The future may be unevenly distributed, but Neuromancer's author has fenced some atemporal cyberpunk-continuum to Silver Spook. (Still mindfucked that he agreed tbh)
Also, I believe I may have the only recording of Gibson saying, "Mother fucker", and with full 70's-Ramones-punk attitude, also.
You can find the silver spook podcasts here: https://www.youtube.com/user/twiliteminotaur
or here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/silverspookpodcast #cyberpunk
My dog destroyed my copy of The Peripheral!! Don't know what to think about him...
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
#williamgibson #cyberpunk #quotes
